DOLPHIN FEEDING AND HARASSMENT IS HARMFUL AND ILLEGAL, FEDERAL AGENCY REMINDS PUBLIC AND BOATERS

NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service reminds people enjoying the Carolinas' coastal waters
that it is against federal law to feed and to harass wild dolphins. It is important that
people going to the beaches or boating on local waterways be well informed about wild
dolphin safety and health concerns, and the federal laws in place to protect the animals.

NOAA'S AQUARIUS TO STUDY PREDATORS ON CONCH REEF

People do not usually think of corals in the same way that they think of sharks, but
both are predators. While sharks chase large prey, corals wait in the watery darkness
of night and prey on nearly microscopic zooplankton that drift by, or swim too close.

Twenty sixth-grade students from Accomack County on the Delmarva Peninsula are attending
a summer enrichment camp at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, thanks to a program
sponsored by NOAA and three partners.